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POPSHealth-care bill lets both parties down The winner is the insurance industry, as anybody who's been watching Washington for a while knew months ago. Just follow the money. The insurance lobby spent far more than any other during the shaping of this disaster, but now they don't look like the bad guys who blocked health care reform. It's a perfect victory for them. Reform passed, goes the headline, but quietly the insurance industry is better off than ever, while the initial problem this legislation was supposed to solve is left unsolved. Ours is a dying empire. Get yourself ready.
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POPSMurder Mystery, Murder Mystery Stories, Murder Story, Murder Victim, Family Murder Our Murder Mystery blog provides information related to top murder stories, murder victims, family murder stories, murder investigation, unsolved murder, murder crimes, first degree murder, murder video, wife murder, murder convicted and other murder cases.
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POPSThe lost symbol
The wait is over. "The Lost Symbol," the follow-up to Dan Brown's 2003 mega-seller, "The Da Vinci Code," is here -- and you don't have to be a Freemason to enjoy it (although it wouldn't hurt).Like "Angels and Demons," published in 2000, and "The Da Vinci Code," "The Lost Symbol" solves puzzles, analyzes paintings and reveals forgotten histories -- all so that Brown's tireless hero, Robert Langdon, can find a legendary Masonic treasure despite special ops squads that are dogging him and a bizarre killer who has kidnapped his dear friend and mentor.There is one mystery, though, that remains unsolved after three books.Will Langdon ever get to rest?You'd think a 46-year-old Harvard symbologist's most strenuous chores would be grinding his Sumatran coffee beans in the morning or persuading bored undergrads to appreciate hidden meanings in the world around them. Langdon does these things, but he's also the guy who survived an antimatter explosion at the Vatican and a Paris manhunt and uncov
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POPSNot Your Fathers Mobile Home Park
The roof is a butterfly roof for water conservation, a new design vernacular we are seeing more of. The wheels lift the structures well above the meadow, keeping the footprint of each hut to the barest minimum, making for a low-tech and low-impact design. The construction of each identical hut is very simple. It is just an offset steel clad box on a steel platform with a wood deck on top. Unlike a typical mobile home, less than half of the space on each structure is indoor space; outdoor decks comprise 55% of the usable space. While the interiors leave some design issues unsolved, the exteriors are well thought out. They are built of simple, durable and no-maintenance materials – steel, plywood and car-decking. No effort is made to soften this reality. The steel exterior is just allowed to rust naturally. The huts are “grouped as a herd” while each faces a view of the mountains (and away from the other structures), they are also gathered together as a unit.
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POPS'House of Horrors' shocks country Once in Christchurch, the couple were told by CYF that they would not be reunited with the children. According to Family Court advocate Peter Burns, who befriended the couple shortly after they moved south, Chamberlain then began to self-harm.~~~ Somerville could not read or write and suffered mental health problems~~~ Somerville and Chamberlain returned to Taupo to try to get their kids back. Chamberlain was hired at her old job at McDonald's and Somerville delivered pamphlets.~~~ This time they stayed for about six to eight months and then returned to Christchurch, apparently having given up their quest for the children~~
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POPSMystery in Grand Central Station NYC solved Articles describes the controversy around why the constellations on the ceiling of the MAin Concourse of GCT are reverse. It finds the medieval designs used for the design and discovers the reasons for the mix-up.
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POPSKidnapping Case: Investigators Search for Evidence on Series of Unsolved Murders
Dugard's stepfather Carl Probyn told FOX News' Geraldo Rivera that his daughter, now 29, is fragile and said he did not think she had tried to escape the backyard compound during her captivity. Probyn told FOX News that Jaycee is "an extremely good mother" and that his grandchildren were homeschooled by Garrido. He said the children, now 11 and 15, just found out that Jaycee was kidnapped. "They thought he was their dad. They didn't know Jaycee was kidnapped. She told them two days ago." Probyn says he's unsure if his daughter loved Garrido, but she "definitely was bonded to him after 18 years." Police in Pittsburg, a Bay Area city near where the Garridos lived, have said they are investigating whether Phillip Garrido may be linked to several unsolved murders of prostitutes in the 1990s. Antioch police are also looking into unsolved cases but declined further details. “We will take a close look at if there are any links to open cases,” Lee said,
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POPSThe Great Silence Listen to the "music of life" here: All of the music samples here were produced from protein and DNA sequences:. How cool is that? Perhaps all that junk DNA, isn't junk after all. .:D
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POPS"R.I.P." t-shirts becoming part of Bay Area's cultural fabric More: Cha Cha Starks' daughter, Shaneice Davis, was killed while asleep in her bed April 7, 2008, when a stray bullet went through their East Oakland apartment. Starks says, "I wear my shirt and have it done because I'm never going to forget my daughter, and I don't want anyone else to forget her. So as long as you know someone can see her face, they can hear her story."
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POPSTrue Grit November 27, 1931: Concert pianist Paul Wittgenstein impresses a Vienna audience with his performance of Maurice Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand. The pianist refused to give up his career after losing his right arm in World War I. 1981: John Kennedy Toole is posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for A Confederacy of Dunces. His gritty mom, Thelma Ducoing Toole, had enlisted the initially skeptical Walker Percy to help get the book published after Toole’s suicide. 1993: Andrew Wiles announces that after many years of work he has solved the seemingly unsolvable Fermat’s Last Theorem. Mathematicians discover a small error, but Wiles resolves it within another year. October 2008: After a decade spent lobbying, high school dropout Alvin Sykes sees the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act " named for the black teenager brutally murdered in 1955 for reportedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi " signed into law, largely because of his relentless efforts.
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POPSMystery Crashes Article states the Pennsylvania crash had no answers. Not true, the uncommanded rudder movement was caused by a servo flipping opposite of pilot inputs and suffered this when it was exposed to extreme cold followed by hot hydraulic fluid. The answer is considerably more complicated.
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POPSUnsolved Mysteries of The Dover Demon The Dover Demon was allegedly sighted on three separate occasions in the town of Dover, Massachusetts on April 21 and April 22, 1977. It has remained a subject of interest for cryptozoologists ever since then. Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman was the initial investigator, the first to interview the eyewitnesses within a week of the sightings, and the individual who named the creature the Dover Demon; it was disseminated by the press, and the name stuck.
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POPS'Deathbed confession' man charged After suffering a stroke, Mr Brewer called police to his hospital bedside earlier this month, where he reportedly made the confession. Detectives said Mr Brewer had admitted killing Mr Carroll, who he believed had been trying to seduce his wife.
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